They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Your regular reminder that since August of last year, Mr. Abrego has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, but the Trump admin refuses to do so because they want to instead punish him by sending him to an African country that will most likely detain and then deport him to El Salvador for the admin.

The Trump administration’s attacks on H-2A wage protections make it harder than ever for farm workers to earn fair pay. This #ValentinesDay, remember: Love means justice. Love means protection. Stand with farmworkers. Show love to the hands that feed us. ❤️#WeFeedYou

Rebecca Solnit as brilliant as always ✨✨✨✨

English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.

Happy bad bunny day to all who celebrate 🪩

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

A survey of the Epstein files and how #metoo , eugenics, and fascism interconnect this was so well done

Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca. Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm @ Local Economy, Oakland

When you’re writing a novel and have multiple chaos lines going this is called a chaosii

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

We did a close reading of Alexandra Kleeman’s You, Disappearing and damn what a short story www.guernicamag.com/you-disappea...

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie! This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work

Here's what a police detective wrote about this sweatshirt in 2019.

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

We’re going to have to step up to protect and support our literary journals, independent presses, and institutions. This just happened to everyone. I’m thinking through this ❤️

Have you bought your tix yet? The first ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social kicks off Monday, April 14, at the Roxie Theater. Featuring @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation w/ Jenny Odell, right after the screening of "Rivers and Tides" (in 35mm). roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...

Wrote you a letter 💌

I wrote about ghosts and hauntings open.substack.com/pub/ingridro...

"Other countries that have previously been featured on the watchlist in recent years include Zimbabwe, Argentina, El Salvador and the United Arab Emirates." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Time for my incredible tax expenses system where I’ve left the expense as an unread email in my inbox along with all my other unread emails 💀

I’m on Substack btw

Beautiful prose from @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Many things are hard to see through. ... Something has happened to language. Things are becoming interchangeable. President. Autocrat. substack.com/home/post/p-...

If you are freaking out, engage with trusted groups like @detentionwatchnetwork.org. Allow them offer some guidance about what you can do and how you can help.

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

Trump just took 500 Marines on standby to help with escalating California wildfires and sent them to the border instead, where migrant crossings have been at the lowest level they’ve been in years since July. Unbelievable. And apparently armed, which is new. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

I don't think people quite grasp how much danger the media is in.

Good morning. You are still here. Do something kind for someone you love today--and if you can, for someone else in your community, even if they're a stranger. We're in this together. ❤️

Excuse me? They can't have their OWN books???

This motherfucker here.

Wikipedia is a great achievement of our era, and (of course) it’s under attack by the far right. If you use it frequently like I do, consider donating: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

“The language of pain allows those who suffer, those who acknowledge their suffering and share it with others, to articulate an inexpressible experience as an intrinsic criticism against the sources that made it possible in the first place.” —Cristina Rivera Garza giving us reasons to write

Today is my birthday, and the greatest gift I could possibly get on this desperate, hopeless, futureless day is a future as a writer. I’m allergic to promoting myself, but if I can earn out my advance, hopefully, I can write another book. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

This perfecg Tilsa Otta poem <3

We knew it was coming and yet.

100 Days of Creative Resistance launched today, with R. O. Kwon. Even if you haven’t signed up, you can read Kwon’s post here: mailchi.mp/c5a285e83b27... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

It's not just undocumented immigrants. The Trump birthright citizenship EO says that every child born to a parent here on any non-immigrant visa (including student visas and other visas which allow people to live in the US for years) is not a US citizen. Unconstitutional in the extreme.

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

LA stay safe sending you all love

I’m taking a zoom class with Brian Eno and somebody asked what he was reading and it was Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 🎈 we love to see it

Finished my first book for the year! I recommend this as a fiction companion to The Man Who Could Move Clouds by @ingridrojasc.bsky.social app.thestorygraph.com/books/2f4a60...

Impossible to spell the word subpoenaed without autocorrect because in your head it’s always sub-peon-Aeneidmeteorshower-d